Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-02-03

together, and after saddling their horses
and getting out on the street they
defed the marshal to arrest them. The
marshal was not slow in getting his two
brothers, Wyatt and "Morg," and the
redoubtable Doc Holiday, to assist him.
The famous duel was illustrated in the
News. 1t was four against four, and
probably eight braver or more deter.
mined men never faced each other in a
death struggle. When within five
PAGES of each other the shooting COM
menced simultaneously on both sides,
both giving and receiving the deadly
missiles that flew like hail. After the
smoke of battle cleared away, Billy
Clantop, Tom and Frank McLowry were
lying in the street cold in death. Ike
Clanton ran away at the first fire and
left his companions to their fate, and
saved his own life. "Virg" and "Morg"
carp were seriously wounded. Doc
Holiday also received slight wound.
The dead warriors proved on examina.
ton to have an average of six bullets
each in their bodies. 1t was the most
desperate encounter that ever took place
in any country. The balance of the
robbers determined, after their defeat,
on getting revenge, but they changed
their mode of warfare. They wanted
no more ''up and up fights. and there
lore resorted to assassination. Virg
carp, the marshal, was their first victim.
They fired at him with a shotgun
loaded with buckshot from a place of
concealment. While they failed of
their object in killing him, they sue
ceeded in crippling him for life.
"Morg" was their next victim. With
him they were more successful, for one
night while he was playing pin pool in
Bob Hatches' saloon they fired through
the window, killing him Instantly. The
bullet broke his backbone and he died
after few moments suffering. Wyatt
then swore vengeance against every
"rustler" in the Territory. He gathered
some of his most trusted friends to.
gether, and after aiming and ountlng
them, started out on his mission of
death. 1t was only short time before
Florentine, a Mexican who was known
to be one of the slayers of Morgan carp,
fell victim to Wyatt's shotgun. The
next to meet well-deserved fate was
Frank Stillwell, another of the assassins,
whom Wyatt filed with buckshot on
the depot platform of Tucson. The last
of the three who was known to have
participated in the killing of Morgan
carp was Pete Spence. He thought
discretion the better part of valor and
fled the country, going to old Mexico,
where he still remains. The next one
to bow to the unerring aim of Wyatt
Earp's shotgun was "Curly Bill" the
most famous outlaw of the Southwest.
Wyatt killed him one evening about
sundown, at MILESTONE Springs, 30
miles from Tombstone. This last kill.
lug broke up the band. Their chief,
with the majority of his following, had
bitten the dust, and those who were left
sought new fields in which to operate.
Wyatt then left Arizona and went to
Colorado, where he opened gambling
another in Denver. During the Grand
Army reunion last summer he went to
Dodge City, Kan, in behalf of his
friend Luke Short, who had received
rather bad treatment there at the hands
of mob. He is now running large
gambling house in Eagle City, Idaho.
He is a quiet, unassuming gentleman,
about six feet in height. broad shoul.
dered, and wears large blonde mus
tache. He Is dignilied. self-contained,
game and fearless, and no man COM
mands greater respect where he is
known than Wyatt s. carp. If he has
been a man.killer and avenger, he has
been so in the cause of justice and in q
conflict with the most dangerous aud
elements of life in wild
on the frontier.-[Police